Bloody clashes rock Cairo as regime stands firm

Two people were killed in gunfire aimed at anti-regime protesters in Tahrir Square in central Cairo early Thursday, witnesses said.Witnesses said also that there were many people wounded by fire coming from the October Bridge where partisans of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were positioned.Sporadic gunfire started around 4:00 am (0200 GMT) and could still be heard, an AFP correspondent reported.Egypt braced Thursday for another day of violence after backers of Mubarak stormed the Cairo stronghold of anti-regime protesters, sparking clashes.

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CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed to his palace, despite his later denial that he knew the extent of the protests and crackdown against them, a member of a fact-finding mission said Wednesday. The finding could lead to the retrial of the 84-year-old ousted president, already serving a life sentence.

CAIRO — Two years after Egypt’s revolution began, the country’s schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
With the anniversary, Egypt is definitively in the new phase of its upheaval.

PORT SAID, Egypt — Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of the restive Egyptian city of Port Said on Sunday for a mass funeral for most of the 37 people killed in rioting a day earlier, chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Violence erupted briefly when some in the crowd fired guns and police responded with volleys of tear gas, witnesses said. State television reported 110 were injured.

Egyptian troops fired warning shots at the main rally against President Hosni Mubararak in central Cairo on Wednesday in a bid to end clashes with regime supporters and the protesters reacted jubilantly, an AFP correspondent reported."The army and the people hand in hand," the crowd shouted after dozens were injured in running battles between pro and anti-Mubarak demonstrators on Cairo's central Tahrir Square.

Supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clashed on Wednesday with opposition protesters after marching into the anti-regime rally in Tahrir Square, an AFP correspondent reported.Thousands of protesters from both sides were in the square, the epicentre of opposition demonstrations now in their ninth day.Several groups were involved in fist fights, and some were using clubs, an AFP correspondent said

Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clashed violently with opposition protesters on Wednesday after storming their rally in central Cairo, with dozens hurt, AFP correspondents and witnesses said.Partisans from both sides threw stones and set on each other with sticks and fists in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of anti-regime demonstrations, a day after the embattled president rejected demands to step down and vowed to stay on to the end of his term.

CAIRO, Egypt — A string of sexual assaults on women during celebrations of Egypt’s presidential inauguration — including a mass attack on a 19-year-old student who was stripped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square — prompted outrage Monday as a video emerged purportedly showing the teenager, bloodied and naked, surrounded by dozens of men.

Clashes killed at least 31 people in Egypt's Port Said as violence raged into the early hours of Sunday in several cities including the capital following death sentences passed on 21 football fans after a riot.